Data Protection Manager 2010 Overview Poster

The Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 Overview poster was made to give an overview and quick reference to DPM's components, architecture, and DPM protection scenarios. It consists of system requirements, licensing, architecture, supported workloads, storage types, design quest.

Authors:

Yegor Statsev	Microsoft DPM MVP
Sean O Farrell	www.seanofarrelll.blogspot.com
Steve Buchanan	www.buchatech.com

Download: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Data-Protection-Manager-e1835980
Source: http://blogs.technet.com/

How Microsoft Does IT..

It is always interesting to read how Microsoft manages its own IT. Not for the last reason is because Microsoft is one of the world's largest companies. This is not (only) a commercial story, but also provides a inside to the Microsoft IT infrastructure,

Client Protection and migration to DPM2010 - Technical Case Study
How Microsoft Information Technology (IT) used System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 to create a client-server data backup and recovery solution.

Providing Client-Server Backup and Recovery at Microsoft with System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

Reducing Operational Costs, Improving Storage Utilization, and Increasing Scalability – Technical white Paper
This white paper is written specifically for enterprise technical decision makers, technical architects, and deployment managers who are considering deploying Data Protection Manager 2010. It is based on the experience of Microsoft,

Protecting Server Data with Data Protection Manager 2010

Protecting Client Data at Microsoft with System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 - Technical White Paper
As part of an ongoing effort to provide a comprehensive end user data management strategy for the company, Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) worked closely with the System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 product team on a five-month pilot deployment of the DPM 2010 client. The success of the pilot led to Microsoft IT's adoption of the DPM 2010 client as a supported backup and restore solution. DPM has become part of Microsoft IT's Client Corporate Data Management service portfolios.

Protecting Client Data at Microsoft with System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

Video: Managing Client Data Backup, Storage and Management at Microsoft
In this video, learn how Microsoft IT manages client data backup, storage and management with an emphasis on IntelliMirror Folder Redirection (User State Virtualization), System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) for Client data backup, and Virtual File Storage (VFS) service.



Managing Client Data Backup, Storage and Management at Microsoft

EUR not working in combination with DFS

It is not possible for users to restore (their own) files using EUR in situations where DFS (Distributed File System) is in place for the file servers.

Users receive the error message: "There are no previous versions available."

CausePrevious versions of a file or of a folder in a DFS share are not listed if you access the share through a nested DFS link from a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

Hotfix
A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft for the following Operating Systems.

• Windows 7
• Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

The hotfix is available using this Support link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2466048

Our experienceThe support article describes that this issue only occurs when you try to access the share by DFS name. <\\DFS\fileshare> When you access the share by the file server name it should work. <\\fileserver\fileshare>. However we experienced the issue also when accessing the share using the server name. Both issues where solved by the hotfix.

More info about End User Recovery (EUR)

Replica inconsistent and insufficient disk space on BMR (Bare Metal Recovery) Backup

The problem is that sometimes the BMR backup "Bare Metal Recovery" is not working properly and fails with the message "Replica inconsistent" caused by "insufficient disk space".
Cause:
DPM 2010 does not calculate the size of BMR data source, but assumes 30 GB for all servers. Admins should change the value as per the size of BMR backups expected on their environments.

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